Driving between Adelaide & Melbourne

[GrommoT]

Greetings, for those who drive on Adelaide & Melbourne roads on a frequent basis, are there any unusual differences driving on Melbourne roads? (rules, road situations, other drivers, ... )

I'm driving over to Melb in a couple of weeks' time and just wondered if there's anything to watch out for.

Cheers.

 

[FR0GGY]

Greetings, for those who drive on Adelaide & Melbourne roads on a frequent basis, are there any unusual differences driving on Melbourne roads? (rules, road situations, other drivers, ... )

I'm driving over to Melb in a couple of weeks' time and just wondered if there's anything to watch out for.

Cheers.

More pot holes, seriously, used to be the reverse. (Adelaide to Melbourne rd)
Hook turns - wtf?

 

[GrommoT]

Hook turns - wtf?

Yeah, remember those - don't think I'll try them, just seem ..... a bit wrong.

 

[CrowsB4hoes]

In Melbourne, if you indicate to change lanes, sometimes the people in the other lane won't speed up and in fact may open up a space for you to enter that lane safely.

 

[Damp Squarie]

Radars at Horsham, get toll pass online or spend hours pronouncing various word adaptions over the phone to a numbnutted robot who doesn't recognise English....or get one online after the event within 24 hours, hook turns.

 

[GrommoT]

Radars at Horsham, ..

Thanks, I was hoping to avoid the tolls.

 

[Bicks]

Thanks, I was hoping to avoid the tolls.

 

[GrommoT]

Darce better not be tryng to steal him to Freo...

 

[Bicks]

Darce better not be tryng to steal him to Freo...

I was hoping it was the other way around...

They played a lot of basketball together as well as footy...

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Greetings, for those who drive on Adelaide & Melbourne roads on a frequent basis, are there any unusual differences driving on Melbourne roads? (rules, road situations, other drivers, ... )

I'm driving over to Melb in a couple of weeks' time and just wondered if there's anything to watch out for.

Cheers.

Speed limit changes down across the boarder & cops are waiting...

Take lots of breaks & wait for overtaking lanes if not in too much of rush.

 

[GrommoT]

Speed limit changes down across the boarder & cops are waiting...
Take lots of breaks & wait for overtaking lanes if not in too much of rush.

It's more likely drivers behind me waiting for overtaking lanes

 

[GreyCrow]

It's more likely drivers behind me waiting for overtaking lanes

Wait until you see a long long long line then grab your rearview mirror and snap it off and toss it out the window. Problem solved.

Drive safe

 

[GrommoT]

Well, been there and back in one piece.

One thing to add is that there are roads where trams also run on where passengers need to cross the lane you might be driving on to get on and off, and if such trams stop, you also have to stop to allow passengers on/off. Mate living in Melb told me this so I didn't learn it the hard way.

Also, the roads are very narrow!

 

[radiojake]

One thing to add is that there are roads where trams also run on where passengers need to cross the lane you might be driving on to get on and off, and if such trams stop, you also have to stop to allow passengers on/off

I undertook a stationary tram once in the first month or so of living over here just as the driver opened the tram doors to let passengers off.... As soon as I realised what I had done I felt pretty sick.. luckily I past it just before anyone stepped off... Have never done anything like that since

They've done lots of work over the last ten years in putting platforms in the middle of the road where possible to stop that happening... there aren't a whole heap of tram stops left where that happens anymore...


Also hook turns are easy and actually make quite a bit of sense... you only really come across them in the CBD and around South Melbourne though...